and up until the size of a came home and you're back home. so i would like to envision that to you. does it actually this? if you live in, it's just like that one direction. do i need to? i'm from the other side of this, i was top headlines right now. here. what are t croatia? brakes rank is going against nato's vow to help ukraine against russia, saying it will withdraw its troops from the lines of a conflict breaks out. we speak to a british mother whose son died after he went to any with chest pains, but was told to wait for 4 hours to see a doctor. last january, the price of gasoline and manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now, here it be p in midtown manhattan. they won $4.79. most americans are saying that top concern right now is out of rising prices. are the overwhelming majority of

small businesses. se spiraling inflation is damaging them badly. you have to make concessions to, to fit your budget by drive the car almost every day. the cost, the gas is going up through ridiculous is really going up really quickly, really high with boston into a busy day here at our to international live from moscow. just off at 3 pm now, welcome to the program. so croatia is president, is now saying that he will withdraw his country's nato troops from the region in the event of a russia ukraine conflict. so prompted key f to label him as an anti ukranian, a propagandist mean. well, joe biden has reiterated at thousands of nato troops and now on high alert deployment in eastern europe, should russia invade its neighbor ortiz peter oliver. now take a closer look at the apparent dissension among the ranks in the alliance corporation president zora milan. of ich making so many century comments on tuesday

. he said that if there is a conflict between ukraine and russia, he would order the croatian troops to pull out of deployments that they're involved in with nato. now this was a statement that's not only unlikely to have gone down particularly well in nato headquarters. it's also unlikely to gone down particularly well in ukraine either because mr. milan of each also went on to say that the 2014 might done revolution in ukraine was a coo. and he said that ukraine had absolutely no business in joining nato. not only will we not send troops, but if there is an escalation, we will withdraw. every last corporation, soldier, everything is happening on moscow's doorsteps. it is necessary for an arrangement to be found that will take into account russia's security interests. i worked in the european council when the democratically elected president young cove ich a scoundrel who sat on 3 chairs was overthrown in

a cou. it was encouraged primarily by the e. u and the united states. i feel obliged to be proper, present little present in an eastern front of sources and i learn are they're part of our nato operation now. so you, us operation the language was a lot more diplomatic here in berlin on tuesday as the chancellor all f sholtes welcomed french president emanuel macaroni to discuss further how to calm down how to take the heat out of the tension surrounding russia, nato, and everything to do with ukraine now, the 2 of them use their press conference to emphasize the importance of continuing dialogue, the french president saying he would never give up on the dialogue. however, he did say that there would be a high cost if there was any aggression. and also emphasizing the importance all fit good to talk with all of sholtes. but he did also use his time at the podium to

say then to again clarify that germany would not be sending any weaponry to ukraine. also talking about this ongoing situation in europe on tuesday, over in london was boris johnson, the british prime minister. he was speaking in westminster to parliament. and he said this essentially diplomacy was the only way that there should be a solution. he said he'd be having further calls further contact with the russian president vladimir burton. and it was important to listen to the concerns that russia had. however, he did say that if there was an invasion of ukraine by russia, they said could well end up being the resulting in the worst bloodshed that had been seen in europe since world war 2. and it wouldn't end well for russia, there is nothing new about large and powerful nations using the threat of brute force to terrify reasonable people into giving way to otherwise completely

unacceptable demands. i think the americans are desperate to try and fashion as a new government to come on board, but it's new cold war against her and against russia. but clearly there are still some in the german government who would get russia and see not as a threat present potential. i'm sorry, my business partner. we don't wanna meet no great those links. and if the germans don't come on board, what the situation is going to be is gonna a very classic situation of the american stake, annoyed for by the poodles in france, britain, and with other various e r. he's the european states rushing into hell. and we are seeing now, america and britain pumping arms pumping into misers into ukraine, making threats, natural sanctions, and so on. there's also major military major navy war games underway in the mediterranean. those nato ad drills surrounding me and revolving around the badly american aircraft carrier. the u. s. s. s. harry truman ongoing in the mediterranean, there was also promises earlier this week from the netherlands,

spain, and denmark to send military hardware to the east home, the, the nato alliance. the search for a diplomatic solution moves to paris on wednesday, and norman d format talks will be taking place in the french capital. it's the 1st time that this type of talks have taken place since 2019. what that means is representatives of the russian government, the ukrainian government, the german and the french governments will meet to try and find a solution. we discussed the ukraine crisis, but also attitudes towards russia with audi host and former british. i'm p. george got away. does a splintering all the european side of the nato alliance. germany has made it plain that it does not support the build up of war material in ukraine and does not want a confrontation with russia to turn into

a war. they want a new european security architecture that is not led by the nose by as seen, american president. not most people wouldn't send out to the shops for a low for bred. bach may well lead his european allies into war with hypersonic. there are more nuclear superpower called russia. so it's all beginning to break apart the law. one intended consequence that they don't have russia. you know, i made this point job before they hit put ins. russia, because brewton has dragged russia up from the floor where it was lying, having its pockets picked and restored prestige and respect, self respect to russia. that's not the kind of russia they want. but as the tensions continue to mount with a professional partners in the west,

russia has announced shoes drills in the atlantic arctic pacific and mediterranean russia. the northern fleet has already launched wargames in the barren sea. the forces dara, honing their arctic combat skills of understand the exercise when a bowl of some dirty warship in that region and whether you're green crisis ultimately gripping the media outlets are getting a bit ahead of themselves. see it and for example, labeling ukrainian territory as russian read more about that confusion at r t dot com or to the u. k. now we're going back a few months to walk. tobar my 27 year old norman baka was taken to a n with chest pains. he died outside the emotions a unit waiting to be seen after being told to wait for 4 hours. so we got a chance now to speak to his mother. now tommy and kit just heinz. they said they'd pay for a number line, but they got told there was going to be a chill out. why actually tell this to sit down but there was no way to say that

people were standing outside normally. hot, you know, given a week 9 label out to, well, i will look up my, given my home and i won't be, wasn't able to tell me. now need to be told. we have to wait for was a come across to the inner goal, like teach down in your stop they in before and i bridge just come here. that is, you know, i'm not the one that foster a lot of lunch because of now, according to a recent study so far this year, 6000 patients have had to wait more than 12 hours in a patients waiting more than 5 hours are considered a far greater risk of death, a cope, it did impact hospital waiting times in the u. k. for example, in the 1st year, more than $53000.00 and had the cancer treatment delayed. and over the very same period, more than 4000 non coverage that were reported. and we discussed all this with

jordy grover and emergency medicine consultant. the last 6 months, within the united kingdom. in many countries, i'm sure they hadn't been around 10 to 20 percent of patients, which has meant that it is slow processing of patients for people who come in with a problem with which people are in much longer in the images of minutes before they can go to the hospital so if you look at the data last to last year they were both to 90 percent of patients who came to the departments and last 6 to 8 months to get to the from 90 percent, to 65 to 70 percent. so that's

a significant problem deposited arguments in the united kingdom of is a new survey show. small businesses in america are being crushed under the weight of inflation. just find up beat messages from president biden on the issue. no overwhelming majority of entrepreneurs say the financial health is severely deteriorated in the last 6 months with households, of course, as well, having to tighten the belts, reporting from new york kellum up, and as the saying goes and dollar ain't a dollar anymore, an american families are being squeezed by inflation, there has been a 7 percent increase and consumer prices over the past year. that's the fastest increase that we've seen since. 1982 joe biden has promised that he is going to fight these increasing costs of pretty much everything. and he has already found someone to blame for the crisis. so bottom line, this isn't just about quick winds. it's about reversing decades of concentration of her workers, consumers,

and small businesses. it didn't happen any one time. it's been over a period of time now a long time. the average cost of red and new york state in 2021 was $0.88. here, a popular supermarket in manhattan. there's bread for sale for roughly $3.48 or $4.27. now, prices in manhattan are like steeper even in good time. that's a pretty significant increase in cost for the consumer. i feel ridiculous thumb is really going up really quickly, really high on the feminist check. we got off. we're going to boise that on just a regular trip to the supermarket as it is becoming um, you know, becoming more difficult. you have to, you have to make concession, so you to fit your budget to, to buy the essential things to a feature. families got 3 kids and the cost, the food is going up. i drive the car almost every day, the cost the gas is going up. i don't think there was anything. last january, the price of gasoline in manhattan was roughly $2.37. but now here it be

p in midtown manhattan. they want $4.79 per gallon to fill up your tank. if i could get this under control, a lot of people would breathe a huge sigh of relief. but judging from the way he reacted to a reporter's question about inflation. that's not likely anytime soon, a more inflation to pursue a new survey shows that 76 percent of small firms in the united states have felt the negative impact of inflation over the past 6 months. there's nothing natural about it as a result of political decisions and the result has been vast borrowing of money to speculate in the stock market. it. and some of that money has now fallen over into the rest of the economy. and so we have an inflation mostly because businesses

have wanted to offset profits last in 2020, and the 1st half of 2021 by raising their prices. now it is a profit driven decision not to be clear. it's not like biding did all of this personally, this is a result of supply chain issues and a sudden increase in demand as we come out of the pandemic and lot downs. and some of the i a nap or warning that it's not over yet. and it might actually get worse. the emergence of new coven 19 variants, could prolong the pandemic and induce renewed economic disruptions. moreover, supply chain disruptions, energy, price volatility, and localized wage. precious mean uncertainty around inflation and policy policies, high serious public health disaster. colvin and an economic crash on a scale with the great depression of the 19 thirty's to have these 2 things at the

same time, was excruciating. and now at the end of those 2 years to have added to it on inflation currently rising 7 percent per year. when workers, wages on average are rising between 3 and 5 percent per year means that the working class is now hurt by the new 2022 already in the 1st month. yes, this is going to be a very rocky a year and the stock market vibrations this last week are more evidence. now in 1971, u. s. president richard nixon imposed a 90 day price freeze to curve inflation. now, economists are debating what the results would be. biden was so bold and how that would affect the economy. but regardless, so far, jo,

biden's protest has to tackle the problem of inflation or just words. prices are still rising. caleb mob been r t new york tech giant spent a record about on lobbying in 2021. this according to filing submitted to congress, the top 7 firms spend a combined 70000000 dollars fighting legislation aimed at limiting that market power. the top of the list were amazon and facebook now known as mehta, and they spent around $20000000.00 each persuading lawmakers not to adopt tough new regulations. and in the process, they use dozens of intermediary firms deploying professional lobbyists with close ties to members of congress and biden administration. officials as well. but not all of those efforts have succeeded. last thursday, the u. s. senate judiciary approved a bill preventing a tech jain from giving preference to their own businesses on their own web sites. the innovation and choice online acted as known, still have to pass

a full senate vote to become law. we spoke with a ben swan host of ortiz business show, boom bust. remember, there are about 5 different laws that have been suggested in terms of being able to rein in these tech companies. in this particular case, this, this freedom of choice app, essentially what it's saying is if you're amazon, you can't create your own product on your own marketplace and then compete directly with the other sellers who are on there. especially since amazon is constantly deriving information and data from those sellers. so they're essentially utilizing someone else's research, someone else's market position, someone else's understanding of price points to basically copy all of that and then compete directly for a lot of years. companies like facebook and amazon and twitter and google didn't have to spend a lot of money to lobby lawmakers because they were essentially left alone. so you could throw a little money here and there in key positions. i don't think what we're seeing now

is a much wider swath of congress, receiving donations and receiving money from those tech companies because they recognize what they really have to do as muddy the waters. you don't want one party to be on your side because when the other party gets into power, then you have problems. instead, you wanna as white of a swath of both democrats and republicans in order to influence them. and then you can't really get legislation passed. you can't get it in front of committees and you can't get the votes that you need. because as you know, we have a very divided congress here. if an ordinary citizen tried to buy not much influence for their own gain, it might be considered bribery. how much of a difference is there in reality, between lobbying and bribery? i think there is very, very little difference, especially when you consider the fact that not only do these law makers receive money directly from these companies in order to push their agendas. many of the lobbying firms that do this, there's bidding also right, the bills that go before congress, many lawmakers don't write the bills themselves. it's

a lobbyist on behalf of those companies that write the bills that ultimately become law. would you dictate the laws that govern and regulate the companies if that makes sense? so it's such a backward system that you've created here in this country where there is very little accountability and very little ability for the average person to actually have a representative. that's what we're supposed to have in this democratic republic representatives who stand up for our interests, not the interests of these companies. play them all still to come here on the program and if you love italian food, prepare hunger pay. so energy prices and cove issues approving a bad mix for italian restaurant owners. many now boys to go belly up, story after the break. ah.

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ah ah, i 20 bought the out here at moscow. good to have you with us to day. so it's how leon, restaurants are struggling to make ends meet is understand to be though record energy bills. compounding the whole cove at crisis as well. many regrettably fear they'll just have to close so you don't see the situation is not sustainable. so raising the law, we compare the bill of about 1500 euro we had in 2019, you know, the last 2 months i'll cost triples in november, i went up fivefold in december. how late to spill is to 5300 euro, which is the price was we just can't afford the moment when a 5 hold increases, ordering the death the business big on that key because we're seen fewer people go to restaurants since coby over cancellations. have been rife and the future is uncertain with the next few months look in particular. so, and i was not going through

a good time with all these restrictions that we are getting, penalize the future for business is also at risk simply to an increase in electricity and gas coves. it is given as a big problem there, call noise. they want to see why, let's try get some perspective here on the program. here are some electricity bill costs to one new restaurants who has shared with us. you can see why there is a big jump from november to december last year though. the amount of electricity use was roughly the same and compared with october 2019, the bills have more than tripled or those are feeling the pinch. the italian government has set up a public pot of 5 and a half 1000000000 euros to try and offset some of the burden for households and businesses. we spoke to italians who don't seem terribly optimistic as, as of yet classy what i meant there. hey, it's a dramatic situation with many companies on the brink of closing and others already closed. that government aid has also not arrived. and if it doesn't arrive, there will be chaos. i'm alone. i already that if we continue like this, i don't know where we will end up on the economy is collapsing that?

yeah, it would be a serious blow for all of us to effort different their own. this bill increases an attack on families and businesses that don't term much of the low income coupled with the cost of these bills will force them to lay off workers. skill in mississippi, i assume ever i'm situation is true dramatically. i received a very high bill, legal and in a family. we're only one person work much better. it's really hard to get to the end of the month. the dutch government is calling for the european court of human rights to ignore russia's objections in the trial of the mh 17 plane crash tragedy . the court. it's currently here and complaints against moscow launched by ukraine and the netherlands. the artist donald quarter now explains the european court of human rights is now considering a complaint lodged by ukraine and the netherlands against russia. in connection to the downing of malaysian airlines flight m 817. but russia's representative to the court says that this complaint should actually be completely disregarded. he also

says that the higgs belief that moscow has not been cooperative throughout this investigation is just nonsense. let's take a listen to what he said. unfortunately, the dutch authorities are clearly misleading the court by saying that the requests were left unanswered by the russian authorities. 29 requests for legal assistance from the netherlands had been received so far and 28 of them have been answered. now just to remind our viewers, mh 17 was on its way to qual, i'm poor from amsterdam when it was shot down over done. yes, this was shortly after the conflict in ukraine broke out in 2014. unfortunately, none of the nearly 300 passengers on board survived, and kiev was close, was quick to blame this, this tragedy on the militants in the breakaway region. the kiev said that they were using actually, russian provided equipment to shoot down this plane. this is something that moscow denies, and the millet and the militants, the mill, the militia from the self proclaimed p people's republic of done yet also said that

they didn't have the equipment that would make it possible to shoot down a plane at that distance. a number of theories have floated around since then one, including even the possibility that perhaps ukrainian jets fired on that passenger plane and shot it down. now, the court process surrounding this tragedy has been going on since 2020. and since then, ukraine has still refused to provide any radar data connected to the event. washington has yet to provide the satellite images that it says capture the exact time of launch of the rocket that hit the plane. but this court process is still going on. we're set later in this specific meeting to see a representative from though of those who lost their family members in that tragedy . so they'll be interesting to see how the core process plays out. if you've ever been told to mind your language, it was probably because you were swearing now it could happen even when you use words widely deemed inoffensive. well, especially if the university of washington's new language style guide gets its way

called anything lame recently? well, the vote police out on that wait, said get you. the problematic word was put on the rate up by the university of washington claim. abel. ism implied. this weird is offensive even when it's used in slang for own cool, because it's using a disability in a negative way. minority offensive in various context implies a less than attitude towards the community being disco mantra, cultural appropriation, many people in the fullest and hindu community hold this to him as highly spiritual and religious experience, and it is not to be used with nonchalance webmaster races. the words may have been chosen who emphasized the concepts of a free master, that is no work and a slave that followed the master's boards and every day word or an offensive slur.

it takes an expert to tell a difference. nowadays. history tells us one thing that the ancient greeks and the latin language gave us most roots to our language today. and to start trying to change this 5 thousands of years later is just crazy and unnecessary. i think we should respect language for what it is. a not trying to adapt language to suit a particular political rhetoric. it is a form of censorship. this is a small body of people with a very strange view of the world who feel that although they might not be affected by certain words, other people might be so yes, censorship is definitely a good description of this. it is this strange fraction who feel they are right and only they are right. i feel that's we need to be very careful,

abides expanding this work situation. i'm wrapping up the news cos day with a quick glimpse of a state of affairs in the world today. not a particularly optimistic album operate section of policy dot com lots more to read that all about these stories. thanks for joining us to program returns very soon. let's help with is the earth still launch enough to satisfy the ambitions of jeff bezos? you know, it's got its tentacles in so many aspects of the economy. there's nothing that amazon isn't trying to get in to to step by step. the amazon empire has extended its group on the world that walks like end up being quite like a dog. it's a dog. so amazon looks like monopoly trades like a monopoly makes money like monopoly behaves like monopoly. amazon essentially

controls the market place. it's not really a market, it's a private arena, a wild where a single company controls the distribution of all of our daily products. and the infrastructure of our economy is loose the world according to amazon. ah, do you know the number one place for the rich to go to get richer congress? and there are parts to being a friend, as well as a record lobbying revenues in 2021 are now being reported with those tied to the president and his administration of benefiting the load. we will discuss the dollars and asked if it was just a coincidence policies involving a some of these very large group plan to place as well. it's became an investment net place to sign a multi year production deal worth more than a $151000000.00 with megan, marshall and print carry over a year ago. but now actually want to see something in return. this after spotify

also goes public with their frustrations over lack of work by the former royal capital. we will discuss the failed expectations with our own hollywood insider by did ministration which revoked outright revoked authorization for 2 very popular monoclonal antibody treatment. florida governor, randa santas is angry at the bite administration saying it decision to limit monoclonal antibody youth is sudden and reckless. we're going to look at how the world is currently treating cobit and give you the justification by this administration. for the limits being placed on the highly effective treatment for coven 19 super soon. ok, mike did president biden's crew comment about a reporter? but where is the outcry from other media outlets on a personal attack on a member of their own div, mom virtually says to.